Star-Struck: Problem? Or not?

I don't see how this is situational at all. Survivors are constantly in your TR when you're carrying someone to the hook. I think it's much easier to get use out of this perk than Smash Hit tbh.

But no, I don't think either perk will be a "problem" as they both have obvious counters.

Anyone else notice how weird his fingers look? No? Just me?

Survivors stay exposed for a duration after leaving the terror radius or you hook/drop the carried survivor. So this is less a perk like Mad Grit where you get a benefit against survivors trying to body block and more a perk to pick up a down shortly after hooking another survivor.

I think a lot of people will think the perk is worse than it is, because survivors don't try to body block while exposed. I do plan to experiment with Doc as I can static blast immediately after hooking a survivor to find nearby exposed victims.

It's actually bad in that meme build. You want people to bodyblock you with mad grit.

The only use i can think of for this is to make bbq better. People who run inside your terror radius to avoid the aura reading will have to play safe for a while.

30 seconds really isn't a long time though

This perk will be god tier on Doctor along with Distressing

This perk basically makes Mad Grit even more useless (If that was even possible). It's what mad grit SHOULD'VE been.

If people wanna stop bodyblocking, they're gonna take starstruck, nobody and I mean NOBODY will bodyblock a killer who can insta-down them.

I hope mad grit gets a rework at some point to give it more utility because it's been power creeped

Mad Grit is way better than this as a counter to bodyblocking. With Mad Grit, Survivors will still try to bodyblock and end up taking damage for no reason because the perk. With this, Survivors will just stay out of the way entirely, i.e. they won't be giving you free hits. Starstruck only stops bodyblocking, Mad Grit actually makes bodyblocking a good thing by turning it to the Killer's advantage.

I really want to try it with that build, as I have been using it for months, but I am very hesitant to unlock the Teachable and clog up the Bloodweb only to find that I don't actually think the perk is worth replacing my currently fourth slot (Surge). Being able to actually chase someone and keep the effect going for as long as I am carrying the payload seems super tempting.

Here's the thing to consider: If you pick someone up and start chasing another Survivor while carrying them, they are perpetually Exposed for as long as you are carrying them. In that case, it wouldn't just be 30 seconds. It would actually be 30 seconds + the amount of time you spend chasing that Survivor while carrying another. And then you factor in the occasional opportunity of someone grazing your TR and being tagged with Exposed as well (which is very possible with a 44-meter Terror Radius thanks to Agitation).

Might be a good Nurse perk, mayyyybe Spirit would be able to use it too, but apart from this I don't see it being a good perk in any build. It does look like a fun perk though.

The perk's purpose is no more to get downs than wiggling is meant to actually get you out of the killer's grab. Wiggling is to prevent every hook from being a basement hook, Startstruck is there to prevent every hook rescue from being an instarescue.

What it does is massively change survivor behavior in order to make early aggression against the hook very bad. In a way, its similar to Make your Choice more than Mad Grit in that it makes it easier for a killer to leave the hook confidently, but unlike Make Your Choice which rewards you if the unhook happens later, Startstruck makes it very unlikely someone will rush a rescue because its so easy to down them if your remotely close.

It won't reward camping, like Mad Grit campers WANT people to go for it, but it instead makes it so people aren't going to unhook the second they know you can't hit them before they finish the animation, as now they will instantly go down and the animation will fail. That is a BIG deal, especially if you hook near a tri-gen and thus will be nearby anyway. A huge problem with how hooks work is the killer will incapacitate a survivor for a shorter period of time hooking them than slugging them. This evens it out a lot more. Most of the value here is going to be obtained without you ever actually landing the attack.

Of course, on some killers its very realistic to use this aggressively. Nurse and Spirit are obviously very good at ending chases fast. Wraith could do a lot with it as well.

For normal m1 killers they won't be able to catch the survivor if they are smart.

For the speedy ones like nurse, spirit or blight it could indeed work pretty well if you know where the survivor is.

Also you don't need to hook the survivor. Pick them up and dropping them instantly will reduce how much distance the survivor can make. Do this and even m1 killer can use it

Probably the same way like it does with all terror radius related perks.

The person affected by dark devotion will have been in the terror radius the whole time so will be exposed for 30+however long you carried the survivor.

The usefullness of this is questionable seeing how you have to, you know injure them to put the dark devotion on them in the first place. Big laughs if they just finished healing though

Also if you down the obession and then down and pick up someone else while dark devotion is active any survivor trying to pick the obsession up will be exposed so that would maybe scare some people from picking others up

Picking them up and dropping them makes no sense if you are using the taxi meme build.

Distressing and double calm add ons makes your TR huge. Or you can have fun with Thrilling Tremors to shock right before picking to block gens, hook and then find exposed survivor. It may be trying to do too much though lol

Distressing/Star Struck/Corrupt Intervention/Thrilling Tremors

You could drop Distressing for BBQ or Whispers, or drop one Calm Add On for Restraint to see auras as madness tier goes up.

I think Doctor could see a good buff just from this perk as he is essentially an M1 killer with locating powers.

I don't think it will be too usefull on doctor as he really can't close the distance fast enough.

Assuming that the timer starts when you hook the survivor then if other survivors are 18m+ away from you you won't reach them in time.

That's only with running away. No looping or anything. Just running in a straight line.

That said there is some vallue in forcing survivors to run away from a hook and delaying the unhook. So it's not bad

But as far for getting actual exposed downs i wouldn't count on it, this is very much a perk that works in the background. Unless you play mobility heavy killers it's more about scaring survivors away from the hook then to actually get downs with it

I don't use it as a build focused around bodyblocking. I use it as a build focused around actually being able to chase and maybe even hit Survivors while carrying someone else. That's why I called it a taxi build and not an "anti-bodyblocking" build.

Haggu with Agitation and Starstruck.

Swf co-ordinating to bodyblock tends to irritate most players regardless of experience and is especially irritating for inexperienced players. It’s a dumb concept and shouldn’t exist.

At least when you’re carrying a survivor it kind of makes sense since you’re slowed down. Outside of that there’s no reason why a 10ft tall supernatural killer finds a 5ft tall, light as a feather survivor like Nea an immoveable object akin to a brick wall other than bad and sloppy design.

But that's the thing. There will be no more survivors to chase and maybe hit. They will all just run away the second they see the exposed effect.

You can run this with agitation and iron grasp to run to gens while carrying a survivor to force them of the gen but Mad Grit and this perk really fight eachother.

You can play what you want ofcourse. Just saying it probably won't have the effect you want it to have

This is all that solo Q needs (sarcasm)! Another reason for survivors to not save a hooked person or stay hidden behind a bush.

Is BHVR trying to discourage saves? With Iron grasp, the killer can walk half way across the map and AOE a bunch of survivors with star struck.

I've been using it casually and from what I can tell at the least, it's good on mobility killers that can find survivors fast. All it takes is for someone to be in your terror radius to get Exposed, and the 30 second timer doesn't start until you're not carrying the survivor anymore/ leaving the terror radius.